PTC sports to the rescue, with our affordable and popular holiday camps

School’s out for summer! The kids might be delighted, but as a parent or carer, it can be stressful thinking of ways to entertain and educate during the six-week holidays.

PTC sports to the rescue, with our affordable and popular holiday camps.

In addition to our camps here are some top suggestions of fun things to do as a family outside of our holiday camps.

Go Geocaching
Take your kids on a real-life treasure hunt and go geocaching! All you need is a GPS device, and to sign up for free membership on the Geocaching website. Once registered you can enter your postcode to find geocaches near you. Use the coordinates to hunt out an item or container holding a few of them – often toys.

Pick Your Own
Recreate your own childhood memories with a visit to a PYO. Nothing beats picking your own strawberries on a beautiful summer’s day, with a few cheeky tasters along the way! Once home why not get creative in the kitchen by making your own jam together or foster healthy competition with a sibling bake off.

Forest School
Find your local forest school, many run one off sessions offering the opportunity to explore woodlands, crafts experiences, den building, and campfire cooking as well as an opportunity to make new friends.

Park Crawl
Pack a picnic and grab those bikes and scooters for a mega marathon of park adventures! Plan a cycle route with plenty of parks and visit as many parks as possible in one day, enjoy 30 minutes at each before travelling to your next park. This is a great way to incorporate exercise and a fun and free day out for the whole family.

Team Tournament
Why not organise a park date with your children’s friends for a friendly match of football, cricket, rounders or basketball, all easy sports that don’t require much equipment. Appoint a referee if the parents don’t feel up to running around, they can enjoy watching from the comfort of a picnic blanket.

Family Festivals
Think festivals are just for adults? Think again! Rapidly growing in popularity are the family festivals, while the parents can enjoy some great tunes, the kids can enjoy craft workshops, animals, fun fair rides and more! Fancy giving them a try? We recommend The Green Man or The Big Festival.

Wet and Wild
As the weather warms, its great fun to play in water to cool down. Transform your own garden into your very own aqua adventure land. Set up the paddling pool, water guns, water balloons, sprinkler, and water tables. Be inventive and use what toys you already have, or use preloved toys from Facebook marketplace, eBay or vinted for any new additions.

Get A-maze-ed
Can you conquer the maze? Corn mazes are popping up all over the UK, for summer fun. Explore the miles of pathways to find hidden treasures and the centre of the maze! Kids will develop their teamwork and problem-solving skills all whilst getting in some extra steps.

Paw Patrol
Walks are always made better with our four-legged friends, walking is free and great exercise for all ages and fitness levels. If you don’t have a dog, ask another family if you can go and walk with them. Better yet, volunteer at your local dog shelter who are always happy to have help walking the dogs in their care, but not as happy as the homeless dog who will be delighted for a walk and affection from you, a good feeling deed all round.

Get Green
If you are fortunate enough to have the garden space, nurture your child’s passion for nature by growing your own fruits and vegetables and plants, or even experiment with creating your own bug hotel. For the mud loving kids consider making a mud kitchen, you don’t need anything expensive, use Pinterest for DIY ideas using pallets.

Sports Day
Introduce your children to a classic sports day with all your old favourites. – 3-legged race, hoop throw, bean bag race, egg, and spoon, skipping race, tug of war, backwards race, and a sack race. All great challenges to improve cardiovascular fitness, team building and leadership skills whilst developing discipline.

Fun with Foraging
August is the perfect time to go blackberry hunting, with blackberries in abundance in woods and hedgerows. Let your kids explore the great outdoors and set them the challenge of finding the biggest, juiciest blackberries. Once home, there are more great opportunities for developing life skills by letting your little one choose a recipe that uses blackberries, encourage them to write a list of ingredients, take them shopping and give them a budget to work to, before weighing, and measuring, and baking together. We recommend a crumble which is a child friendly recipe and suitable for freezing.

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